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9. Oddly enough, Ice Age art almost never depicts sex

Reply to peacebird (Reply #1)

Sun Feb 16, 2014, 09:58 AM

Feb 2014

There's like one etching of human sex, and one painting of animal sex. (There's a famous paper, "No Sex Please, We're Aurignacian".)

Personally, I think street art is the best ethnographic metaphor. I'd love to see Banksy's opinion on Chauvet or Lescaux.

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Were Prehistoric Statues Pornographic? [View all] seabeyond Feb 2014 OP

I don't find nude images of human bodies pornagraphic unless depicting sex acts peacebird Feb 2014 #1

no. i didnt either. but men like to use it as an argument that this PROVES pornography was from seabeyond Feb 2014 #2

"But it has always been that way" is a poor argument for anything. dawg Feb 2014 #4

yes it is. i cannot even guess why... since all forms were created, i do not even see it necessarily seabeyond Feb 2014 #6

I doubt they ever saw such a woman in real life. dawg Feb 2014 #7

This is pathetic AgingAmerican Feb 2014 #16

Oddly enough, Ice Age art almost never depicts sex Recursion Feb 2014 #9

Fertility totems are not porn. geckosfeet Feb 2014 #3

" juvenille and purile understanding". exactly. nt seabeyond Feb 2014 #5

"Prehistoric" art comprises 25,000 years or so Recursion Feb 2014 #8

Let's add modern interpretations to prehistoric cultures! FSogol Feb 2014 #10

exactly. which is the whole fail of evo psych. using today, to define beginning of time. seabeyond Feb 2014 #11

No, but that�s not to say that frogmarch Feb 2014 #12

who is to know.does that give us license to create a story and present it as fact in order seabeyond Feb 2014 #13

As far as I know, no one is frogmarch Feb 2014 #14

read the SI thread. it is in there. and has been used in the past for exactly what i stated. seabeyond Feb 2014 #19

Prehistoric art that would be definitively be considered pornographic by Western culture exists Coyotl Feb 2014 #15

I've become so cynical I think it's all about commerce now. hunter Feb 2014 #17

No rrneck Feb 2014 #18